This Golden Girl on a beach in Hawaiii: Part 1 of 3

I realize I’m reverting back in time with this post but since I’ve been trying to dedicate more time to blogging again – and failing already – I thought I’d post some photos from our big trip in October when I turned a decade older and had to fly to the islands to have my crisis. Once on the islands, I realized there really was no crisis to be had, and instead found an internal oasis. I had been planning this big trip for us all year, I used to frequent the Hawaiian islands all the time when I was single in my late 20’s, but this was the Golden Girl trip for me. I was going to go, expect to wake up with scales on my back, warts on my face, enter the land of moo-moo-floral wearing dresses forever and just surrender to a permanent perma-bun for life. But, alas, no…instead I found my old self still parked on a beach where I last had left her and picked her back up again, re-fueled my soul, and dove into the new chapter. No moo-moo required!

We started off in Maui and let the R&R begin. It’s magical. Pure magic. The islands feed you like nothing else I’ve ever found. We stayed at the most incredible resort and enjoyed a week of surf, sand, and sun. I even got a photographer who took our family portaits and lived the week like I was on my favorite episode of Growing Pains and we were the Seaver family.

I do love these photos They were worth every sweaty, swampy minute. I’d do it all over again. A Seaver moment for sure. I became a Golden Girl on that beach in these photos.

Now for the REAL photos, aka outtakes. You gotta know something about these pictures. I give this photog credit cause it was brutal out there. They were taken at 8:00 AM and it was relentless heat, humidity, and sweat. It was SWAMPY. We had to walk through a neighborhood for what felt like a 100 miles in the swampy heat and try to keep our faces from melting off. Thighs expanded, hair expanded, makeup sweated, and it took everything in us to not just jump into the ocean right there. It was SO hot that morning. I can’t emphasize this enough. I have a whole new respect for models cause they make it look easy. I was dying. I had my hair done and it went flat and frizz within 2 minutes down there. Here’s what the hair looked like straight from the stylists chair still in the A/C car…

Then we got lost finding this local spot “baby beach” where pit bulls were running around loosely on this beach with no owners…a little scary to say the least. Luckily they were not interested in us but having one following you for 50 feet was a bit intimidating initially. Then the sweating, swampy sand walk ensued..

Dad thinking, the outfit is destroyed and now I’m going to have to fish him out of there too…

Sweat anyone? The hair went flat minute one!

Then it stuck to my face and neck – pure misery in the blistering heat and humidity. This is a point where you think “if there was a razor right here, I’d be shaving it off!”.

Oh vey. And one hot minute after she said “that’s a wrap” we ripped these nice clothes off and jumped in, were totally destroyed, but comfortable! I took over 500+ photos on this 9 day journey so I will be doing two more posts, coming up!